{"id":230487,"date":"2026-03-21T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230487\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:21:09","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-bicyclist-critically-injured-in-long-beach-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230487\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed, bicyclist critically injured in Long Beach collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist died and a bicyclist was critically injured after they collided head-on in Long Beach on Friday night, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality--san-gabriel-river-trail-south-of-the-405-freeway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>, the Long Beach Police Department said officers responded to reports of a collision on the San Gabriel River Trail, just south of the 405 Freeway, at about 8:12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, officers found bystanders giving medical attention to the two men involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Crews with the Long Beach Fire Department transported both men to a local hospital in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist, who remains unidentified publicly, was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The current status of the bicyclist is not yet clear.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed that the motorcyclist was traveling at a high rate of speed without a helmet or lights southbound on the trail when he collided with the bicyclist head-on, who was traveling in the opposite direction. Both were ejected from their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediately made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist died and a bicyclist was critically injured after they collided head-on in Long Beach on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-230487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}